Introducing IBM API Connect

We’re proud to announce the upcoming release of IBM API Connect, a complete API lifecycle management solution that will make things easier for developers, Central IT, and LoB Management.

What is IBM API Connect?

API Connect integrates IBM StrongLoop and IBM API Management with a built-in gateway, allowing you to create, run, manage, and secure APIs and Microservices. API Connect is the first of its kind: a unified end-to-end API management solution that enables the automated creation of APIs, simplified discovery of systems of records, self-service access for internal and third party developers and built-in security and governance. It’s built for hybrid cloud environments, so you can place it wherever your API runs best!

Using automated, model-driven tools in API Connect, developers can easily discover existing APIs and back-end data sources and create new APIs and microservices based on Node.js and Java runtimes—all managed from a single unified console. As a result, API developers can be more productive, shorten development cycles and work with IT departments to safely and securely access Enterprise data via self-service portals.

What can API Connect do for you?

IBM API Connect is a comprehensive, streamlined management solution that addresses all aspects of the API lifecycle. You can move from API creation to API consumption with ease, shortening development cycles and accelerating application creation.

Let’s take a closer look at each stage of the API lifecycle:

Create:

API Discovery & Assembly

API Policy Management

Lifecycle Mgmt & Governance

Self-service Developer Portal

API Monitoring & Analytics

Subscription Management

Run:

Discover API’s & data sources to connect to API’s

Develop & Compose API’s in Node.js

Visual API Assembly

Generate API consumer SDK

Manage print node environment information

Manage:

API Policy Enforcement

Security & Control

Connectivity & Scale

Traffic control & mediation

Workload optimization

Monitoring/Analytics Collection

Publish to developer portal

Social Collaboration

Community Management

Secure:

Build, debug, deploy, Node.js microservice apps

Build, debug, deploy Java microservice apps

Node.js & Java common management & scaling

Seamlessly stage to cloud or on-prem catalog

API Connect allows you confidently begin your API journey with efficiency, control, and security to minimize risk. If you are a developer, API Connect will provide several advantages:

Accelerate innovation

As a result of IBM’s recent acquisition of StrongLoop, API Connect brings together Node.js and Java capabilities into a unified runtime management environment. A founding member of the Node.js Foundation and strong supporter of many open source projects, IBM fully embraces, contributes to and participates in open, community-driven innovation.

We plan on making API Connect available on March 15, 2016 with flexible pricing for your various needs. We will tell you more about it in coming weeks. To get details about how API Connect can help you be more productive and reduce dependence on IT as well as shorten development cycles, visit: